Top News Stories of the Week
By Drudge Retort
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 08:00 AM
The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the Drudge Retort.
A novel but risky attempt to use a 100-ton steel-and-concrete box to cover a deepwater oil well gushing toxic crude into the Gulf of Mexico was aborted Saturday after ice crystals encased it, an ominous development as thick blobs of tar began washing up on Alabama's white sand beaches.
Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 08:53 AM on May 09, 2010 | 294 COMMENTS
At a hearing before the Senate Energy and natural Resources Committee, the three oil companies primarily involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill blamed each other Tuesday for the accident last month that left 11 workers dead and oil still spewing into the Gulf.
Posted by rcade at 11:38 AM on May 11, 2010 | 286 COMMENTS
Kids Sent Home for Wearing US Flags
At Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif., Daniel Galli and his four friends were sent home for wearing T-shirts with the American flag on Cinco de Mayo. Galli said the vice principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal's office.
Posted by ExpsRedemption at 08:37 AM on May 07, 2010 | 283 COMMENTS
Tax Bills at Lowest Level Since 1950
Amid complaints about high taxes and calls for a smaller government, Americans paid their lowest level of taxes last year since Harry Truman's presidency, a USA Today analysis of federal data found. Some conservative political movements such as the Tea Party have criticized federal spending as being out of control. While spending is up, taxes have fallen to exceptionally low levels.
Posted by taxman at 09:32 AM on May 12, 2010 | 267 COMMENTS
Palin: American Law Should Be Biblical
In a recent appearance with Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin said that the recent backlash against the National Day of Prayer is proof that some people are trying to enact a "fundamental transformation of America" and to "revisit and rewrite history" in order to shift the Christian nation away from its spiritual roots. Palins's advice: "Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant -- they're quite clear -- that we would create law based on the God of the bible and the Ten Commandments." Joe Gandelman's response: "[T]he United States is not a Christian nation. And the founding fathers most assuredly did not define it as such."
Posted by nullifidian at 10:05 AM on May 11, 2010 | 258 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on May 12, 2010 | 234 COMMENTS
Economist: 'Zero' Danger Posed by the Deficit
The economist James Galbraith, the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. chair in government and business relations at the University of Texas, is a skeptic of the prevailing concern over America's long-term deficit. "I think the danger is zero. It's not overstated. It's completely misstated. "Since the 1790s, how often has the federal government not run a deficit? Six short periods, all leading to recession. Why? Because the government needs to run a deficit, it's the only way to inject financial resources into the economy."
Posted by Corky at 01:18 PM on May 13, 2010 | 231 COMMENTS
President Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday, picking her to fill the seat being vacated by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. Kagan, 50, received her law degree from Harvard University, where she later served as dean of the law school. She previously served in the Clinton administration as associate White House counsel.
Posted by Phoenix at 10:26 AM on May 10, 2010 | 225 COMMENTS
Study: Babies Know Good and Evil
At the age of six months babies can barely sit up - let along take their first tottering steps, crawl or talk. But, according to psychologists, they have already developed a sense of moral code - and can tell the difference between good and evil. An astonishing series of experiments is challenging the views of many psychologists and social scientists that human beings are born as 'blank slates' - and that our morality is shaped by our parents and experiences.
Posted by ExpsRedemption at 12:32 PM on May 10, 2010 | 211 COMMENTS
Owner Profits from Destroyed Rig
The owner of the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 people and causing a giant slick, has made a $270 million profit from insurance payouts for the disaster. The revelation by Transocean, the world's biggest offshore driller, will add to the political storm over the disaster. The company was hired by BP to drill the well. The "accounting gain" arose because the $560 million insurance policy Transocean took out on its Deepwater Horizon rig was greater than the value of the rig itself. Transocean has already received a cash payment of $401 million with the rest due in the next few weeks.
Posted by reinheitsgebot at 05:33 PM on May 10, 2010 | 209 COMMENTS
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